Month: February 2017

Here’s one for the Cosplayers!

We’re pleased to announce that Photographer Richie Crossley and the team at Chic Studio Photography will be coming to Swansea Comic and Gaming Convention, and will be running a photo-station to document the awesome costumes that you’ll all be wearing.

Photos will be uploaded to both our Facebook page and this site, and you’ll be able to buy prints of your photo from the team on the day.

We have big news for you today as we are pleased to announce our first guests for SCGC2017 are The Etherington Brothers!

The Etherington Brothers have been making all-ages comic adventures for over a decade, and are the creators of Long Gone Don, Monkey Nuts, Freaky and Fearless, Baggage and Von Doogan. They have created comics, stories and art for Star Wars, Transformers, The Phoenix, How to Train Your Dragon, The Dandy, Kung Fu Panda, Wallace & Gromit, Madagascar and James Bond. Their client list includes Disney, Dreamworks, Aardman, the BBC, and many of the world’s largest book publishers. Their books have been translated into several languages, and they have toured the world performing sold out shows on creativity and storytelling. At the Swansea Comics and Gaming Convention they’ll be brnging their FULL BACK CATALOGUE, and doing FREE sketches with every book sold!”

In this episode Adam and Ricky invited some non comic reading friends, Sarah, Owen, Becky, and a returning Titch, to talk about comics. Each of the guests were given a mainstream comic and an independent comic before meeting up at Noah’s Yard Swansea to share their thoughts.

Thank you to Noah’s Yard for allowing us use of their function room https://www.facebook.com/NoahsYard/

and Thank you to our guests Becky, Sarah, and Owen for joining us you can check out Owen’s band Extinction here https://www.facebook.com/ExtinctionbandUK/?fref=ts